The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-14
Sudden Whiskers.

Peculiar! Well, ! should say 80;
but that man going down the street is
the greatest curiosity I've ever seeD,"
said friend to a Me,us reporter as they
stood together on Chestnut street yester.
day.
"How's that?" was the quick question.
"Did you notice his full brown
beard ?" was the answering interrogatory.
eyes; well?"
.Well, that man week ago had no
more beard than baby, and now look at
him. You mightn't believe me, but that
mans face was as bare of beard as the
palm of my hand, up to FIVE days ago.
He was awfully anxious to grow some
sort of a hirsute appendage upon bis face,
and some time ago he started to shave,
and, though he lathered and shaved for
six months, the best he could raise was
pretty set of pink pimples. He gave up
in disgust year ago, with heart full of
despair, and his face as bare of beard as
before.
"His name is Frank Glider, and he
lives over in West Philadelphia, on
Darby road, just below Chestnut.
"On the night of June q Mr.. Glider
went to bed in a disturbed frame of
mind. He had been that evening twit.
ted q great deal about his beardlessness.
Before retiring, he relates himself, he
wished most earnestly that his beard
might sprout, aud his accommodating
fairy must have overheard the wish.
"When he arose in the morning and
saw his reflection in the glass, surprise
would hardly describe his feelings. He
was frightened; then those feelings gave
way to unmittigated delight. BE danced
a regular war dance in his stocking feet
and wound it up with whoop that rat
tied the glass in the windows for square
around and brought the entire family to
his roor.
ellis glass had shone him that fine
beard had sprouted. His face was COW
cred with quarter inch stubble of fine
beard, and he could feel that it was
growing still. His long delayed beard
had started, and it had all come out in
the night. Such case was never heard
of before. His appearance created con-
sternation at the breakfast table, the
family failing to recognize him until
they heard his voice. The curious part
of it was that his new beard grew 80 fast
that by noon il was more than inch long,
and by sundown it was three inches long
and still growing. 1t is about three
inches long now and still growing, but
he has had it trimmed every day since it
first came out. His great fear now is
that it will all grow at once, and that its
vigor will in that way become exhausted,
the hair fall out and leave him as badly
off as before.
she has the additional fear, too, that
it is sapping his vitality, as he feels him
self growing weaker daily, and the
chances that an ovcrgrowth of'beard may
cause his death.
physicians whom he has consulted
are at loss to account for the spontane.
GUS growth. One whom he consulted
stated that he had never heard of a SINH
lar case. He gave it as his opinion that
the essential structure of the hair, which
is an assemblage Of epidermic cells at the
bottom of fask.shaped fro!licile in the
substance of the skin, were always
present, but that some condition of the
cells prevented them from being supplied
with blood, and that they simply lay
there without sprouting. Further, he
said that there may have been some con.
dition of the papilla, in the bottom OF
the follicile and upon which the hair
rests, which prevented the proper
enlargement of the root.
"The abnorma' any sudden growth he
would not attempt to account for, mol
could be suggest and means of stopping
the rapid growth which threatens to be
more disastrous and distressing than the
lack of any beard"
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